excited - Story 48506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver of anticipation raced down Sarah’s spine as she saw the familiar sight of the dachshund wriggling under the fence. Her toes were tapping a rapid beat against the patio stones. She had spent the entire morning preparing.

She had filled a kiddie pool with water and thrown in all the dog's favorite toys. She waited for the dog to make his appearance, a warm tingle spreading through her.

"Here we go!" she squeaked, grabbing a doggy biscuit. It was finally time for the fun to begin.

Emotion: excited

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.21 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.05

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion excited. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 excited stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the excited emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the excited vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.809
`!`	0.564
`excitedly`	0.500
`🤩`	0.491
`!"`	0.466

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.721
`ness`	-0.519
`😞`	-0.424
`grieve`	-0.310
`😔`	-0.300